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Matthew Moore (January 8, 1888 – January 21, 1960) was an Irish-born American actor and director. He appeared in at least 221 motion pictures from 1912 to 1958.
Biography
Born in Kells, Ireland, he and his brothers, Tom, Owen, and Joe, and a sister Mary Moore (1890-1919), he emigrated to the United States as a steerage passenger on board the S.S. Anchoria and was inspected on Ellis Island in May 1896 . They all went on to successful movie careers.
Once his brothers made a name for themselves, Moore made his debut in the role as the minister in the silent short Tangled Relations (1912) starring Florence Lawrence and Owen Moore. In 1913, Matt Moore had a prominent role in the "white slavery" drama, Traffic in Souls.
Moore played the role as Hector MacDonald in the MGM crime/drama The Unholy Three (1925) co-starring Lon Chaney and Mae Busch, which was a huge hit that year. He played the role as Stanley "Stan" Wentworth in Coquette (1929) opposite Mary Pickford and Johnny Mack Brown. Coquette was the first talkie of Pickford, ex-wife of his brother Owen.
As time passed, Moore took smaller character roles and remained active in the motion picture industry. His final appearance was in the uncredited role as Charlie Bates in the horror/thriller I Bury the Living (1958), which starred Richard Boone and Theodore Bikel.
Matt Moore died at age 72 in Hollywood. He has a star for his work in motions pictures on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6301 Hollywood Boulevard. He was very fond of his two cats, having them appear in several of his movies, and both have a star in the animal section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Selected filmography
- Traffic in Souls (1913)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
- The Pride of the Clan (1917)
- Heart of the Wilds (1918) as Val Galbraith
- The Dark Star (1919)
- Sahara (1919) as John Stanley
- The Glorious Lady (1919) as The Duke of Loame
- A Regular Girl (1919) as Robert King
- Hairpins (1920) as Rex Rossmore
- Straight Is the Way (1921)
- The Miracle of Manhattan (1921)
- Minnie (1922) as a newspaper man
- Drifting (1923) as Capt. Arthur Davis
- Strangers of the Night (1923)
- White Tiger (1923)
- A Self-Made Failure (1924) as John Steele
- The Narrow Street (1925)
- The Unholy Three (1925)
- The Way of a Girl (1925) as George
- How Baxter Butted In (1925) as Henry Baxter
- His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1925)
- Three Weeks in Paris (1925)
- The Honorable Mr. Buggs (1927)
- Tillie the Toiler (1927) as Mac
- Beware of Blondes (1928)
- Phyllis of the Follies (1928)
- Dry Martini (1928)
- Coquette (1929)
- The Front Page (1931)
- Stout Hearts and Willing Hands (1931)
- Penrod and Sam (1931)
- Rain (1932)
- Little Orphan Annie (1932)
- Deluge (1933)
- Range War (1939)
- Santa Fe Marshal (1940)
- My Life with Caroline (1941)
- Wilson (1944)
- The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
- Neptune's Daughter (1949)
- That Forsyte Woman (1949)
- Malaya (1949)
- The Big Hangover (1950) as Mr. Rumlie
- Three Guys Named Mike (1951)
- The Great Caruso (1951)
- Plymouth Adventure (1952) as William Mullins (uncredited)
- Latin Lovers (1953)
- Executive Suite (1954)
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
- The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) as Englishman (uncredited)
- The King's Thief (1955)
- An Affair to Remember (1957)
- I Bury the Living (1957)